“To raise the best sweet potatoes, you need to start with the best slip
you can get and hope for good weather. While we can’t do much about the
weather," says Jim.
While they can't do much about the weather, Jones Family Farms
can help you put the best plant in the field to maximize your
crop ...and it all starts with micropropagated seed.
Jim started buying micropropagated mother sweet potato plants
from NC State University in the mid-1990s and soon became a
certified plant and seed producer. With confidence in
micropropagated seed, he has increased the acres he plants each
year to supply new customers.
Jones Family Farms is one of only a few farms in the
world that grow micropropagated, virus-indexed plants for sweet
potato production.
Over the years, Jim also invested in a number of new
greenhouses. He now has nine greenhouses. In 2009, he built a
new curing barn and added another curing barn in 2011.
Jim's business has increased largely because of satisfied
customers. "I've never gotten a bad box of seed potatoes,"
reports one customer. He also sends an additional 100 plants
with every 10,000 purchased. He recommends that growers buy some
G-1 seed each year to keep seed stock at its best.
Jones Farms is a certified seed and plant wholesaler, selling to
producers all over the U.S. and Canada. Since he started in the
mid-1990s with micropropagation, Jones has become one of the
largest suppliers of sweet potato cuttings in the Southeast. |